Word: holidaying
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...chocolate and hot cider have a little competition for the holiday-beverage market--cold soda. This winter, revelers have a couple of new holiday-themed brews from which to choose. Jones Soda's fivepack of flavored sodas--Turkey & Gravy, Cranberry, Mashed Potato & Butter, Green Bean Casserole and Fruitcake--sold out of their online store within an hour, despite tasting rather revoltingly like turkey, mashed potato and green-bean casserole. For those looking for something a little more quaffable, Oop!Juice (which despite the name is all soda, no juice) offers up blueberry-flavored Gefilte Fizz, sour apple Santa Sauce (which...
...Salvation Army is having a tough time this holiday season. In addition to being barred from fund raising at Target stores, the charity can't seem to find enough warm bodies to staff its collection kettles. The religious nonprofit, which has had to pay bell ringers in some areas, last week deployed a couple of hundred life-size cardboard figures alongside donation bins with a slot in the shape of a cross. "It's becoming more and more difficult to find volunteers," says Salvation Army spokesman Major George Hood. The group is testing whether electronic jingling and a recorded greeting...
...solicitation policy (similar to that of many retail chains). "It opens the door to any other groups that wish to solicit our guests," said a Target official. In 2003 bell ringers received $8.8 million from Target shoppers--nearly a tenth of the Salvation Army's total $93.8 million holiday haul. Several Christian groups, including Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, have protested the ban and are encouraging their members to shop elsewhere. Fears of a boycott led Mervyn's, a former Target subsidiary, to reverse its own ban last week, but so far Target...
...Holiday House...
...season--and it has been since October The 12 days of Christmas have overflowed into three months, unleashing the holiday spirit and its attendant commercial blitz well before Halloween. Whether one celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or something else, those who haven't composed laundry lists of gifts and begun to deck the halls by November are considered downright Scroogish...